Abstract: The invention relates to an image transmission process such as facsimile transmission wherein image data is converted into an electrical signal, transmitted over lines and then converted into a recorded image at the receiving end. Specifically, the invention concerns a process wherein conventional commercial electric power lines are used as the transmission line, such that facsimile or other image transmission may be easily effected within, for example, a single building or similarly limited area.

Abstract: A thermal recording method which prevents recording density defects includes preheating the heating elements of the thermal recording head during a time when printing is not carried out. Particularly, the head may be preheated during times when a line is not printed, as between adjacent character lines of a printed or typed document, to prevent recording density deterioration of the next printed line.

Abstract: A copying machine includes an optical sensor of the line scanning type for converting an image into electrical signals, and a thermal recording head controlled in accordance with the image signals. The platen moves with respect to the read unit and the read unit will read in both forward and reverse directions of the platen, and the magnification value can be varied. The total width of energized heating elements and the movement length and speed of the platen may be controlled in accordance with the size of the original. The total number of heating elements energized at any one time is limited, and the machine includes input and output terminals for sending image information externally and for receiving and recording image information other than directly from the read unit.

Abstract: A thermal recording head driving system includes a device for maintaining the head at a substantially constant temperature between recording operations, the head however not being excited to an extent as could cause erroneous printing. The device is capable of preventing fluctuations in printing density owing to variations in the waste heat from the previous line recording operation.

Abstract: A copying machine includes an optical sensor of the line scanning type for converting an image into electrical signals, and a thermal recording head controlled in accordance with the image signals. The platen moves with respect to the read unit and the read unit will read in both forward and reverse directions of the platen, and the magnification value can be varied. The total width of energized heating elements and the movement length and speed of the platen may be controlled in accordance with the size of the original. The total number of heating elements energized at any one time is limited, and the machine includes input and output terminals for sending image information externally and for receiving and recording image information other than directly from the read unit.

Abstract: A thermal recording device is equipped with counters and an adder for determining the number of record bits applied to the heat generating unit arrays, and the number of blocks to be simultaneously driven is determined according to this value such that the power source capacity is not exceeded. When over a predetermined value, the blocks may be operated successively without overlap rather than simultaneously.

Abstract: A stencil paper for mimeography is disclosed. The paper is comprised of a porous base which is permeable to mimeographic ink, having thereon a heat-sensitive layer of a material that is solid at ordinary temperatures but which liquifies upon heating. A process for making a stencil is also disclosed, which comprises placing the stencil paper in contact with a receiving medium and selectively heating the stencil paper to liquify portions of the heat-sensitive layer, and allowing the liquified portions of the heat-sensitive layer to transfer to the receiving medium.

Abstract: A heat-transfer recording medium is described, which includes a substrate and a two color transfer layer on the substrate, wherein the two color transfer layer contains a solid heat-sensitive ink which melts or sublimates at a relatively low temperature and is transferred to a recording paper as a predetermined color, and a heat-sensitive color-forming ink dispersed in the solid heat-sensitive ink, which melts or sublimates at a relatively high temperature, and is transferred to the recording paper in a color different from the above color.

Abstract: A two-color copying machine includes a scanner unit for simultaneously generating signals representing different colors on an original document and first and second thermal head assemblies each responsive to signals representing a different color image for recording two different color images on a single recording sheet. If desired, only one of the color portions of the original may be recorded, or they can both be recorded in a single recording color.

Abstract: The heat-generating resistors in a heat-sensitive recording head are preheated, during the serial-to-parallel conversion of the video input signals and prior to the initiation of the recording cycle, to pre-heat the recording medium to a temperature 10.degree. to 15.degree. C. less than the temperature at which recording occurs, thereby reducing the minimum recording time required to produce a high density, high quality image on the recording medium.

Abstract: A gas turbine combustor comprising a combustor inner-pipe for forming a head combustion chamber and a rear combustion chamber having a diameter larger than a diameter of head combustion chamber. A combustor outer-pipe covers the combustor inner-pipe, and a fuel nozzle is disposed at an end part of the head combustion chamber for supplying fuel to said combustor inner pipe. A first group of ports are arranged for swirling and feeding air in an axial direction of the combustor inner-pipe. The first group of ports are around the fuel nozzle. A second group of ports for swirling and feeding air in a radial direction of said combustor inner-pipe are disposed in a side wall of the head combustion chamber near the fuel nozzle.

Abstract: The thermorecording medium is comprised of a support having coated thereon a plurality of heat-sensitive ink materials each having a different melting point. The ink materials can be formed on strip supports wound on rolls which can be utilized by passing the medium close to a finely focused heat source while the inked side of the support is in contact with a recording sheet. The medium may be in the form of an endless belt which can be rotated within a device in such a manner that the medium is continuously reused.

Abstract: A stress absorbing roller is disposed in the travel path of the ink donor film in a heat transfer recording device. The roller is pivotable to compensate for alignment errors in the transport system, to thereby eliminate wrinkles in the donor film at the recording station.

Abstract: A two-sided image recorder employs thermal printing heads and respective ink donor sheets contacting opposite sides of a recording paper as the paper makes a single pass through the recording paper passage.

Abstract: A multicolor recording apparatus includes a number of recording sections for applying different colors of inks. A main transport path travels through all recording sections, while bypass paths are provided for recording sheets which are to be recorded monochromatically, for example, so that any one or more of the recording sections may be bypassed. To eliminate wastage of ink donor sheet, the web containing the solid ink is not conveyed in recording sections bypassed by the sheet.

Abstract: The negative image left on an ink donor sheet after thermal recording is erased by heating the remaining ink at a point downstream of the recording station and either removing the remaining ink or spreading the ink to obliterate the negative image.

Abstract: A thermosensitive copying machine can selectively use either manually or automatically supplied paper, has a pivotable roller and brake mechanism for minimizing wrinkles in the ink donor sheet, supplies the copy paper and donor sheet over paths which differ except at the recording station, and has a separating guide member for peeling the copied paper away from the donor sheet. The donor sheet transport mechanism is enabled only when necessary for a recording operation.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive type multi-gradation image recording apparatus adapted for use with a conventional two-valued recording apparatus including a simple device for identifying image signal levels for recording multi-gradation images. A plurality of heat generating resistance elements are arranged one-dimensionally in correspondence to picture elements. A video signal is converted into a plurality of binary video signals using different threshold level values. Electrical energy is supplied to the heat generating elements controlled by the binary video signals to record and image in an overlap mode.

Abstract: A thermal recording head is formed by alternately laminating conductive and insulating layers and then disposing a heat generating resistive element along a side surface of the laminated body in contact with each conducting layer and extending in a direction transverse to the planes of the laminating layers.

Abstract: A thermal recording medium has two or more kinds of thermo sensitive ink on a base member thereof, and each of the inks has a different melting point and a different color. At least one of the inks also contains an achromatizing agent for concealing a color of at least one of the inks. The thermal transfer recording medium thus constructed is capable of producing multiple colors on a recording sheet by utilizing a device having only one heating head.